No book is of much importance; the vital thing is, What do you yourself think?

Natural joy brings no headaches and no heartaches.

A school should not be a preparation for life. A school should be life.

Nature: The unseen intelligence which loved us into being, and is disposing of us by the same token

Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.

Charity: a thing that begins at home, and usually stays there.

I do not read a book; I hold a conversation with the author.